What You Learned (cont.)

Hunters help control wildlife populations at a healthy balance for the habitat.

Hunters provide information from the field that wildlife managers need.

Funding from hunting licenses has helped many game and non-game species recover from dwindling populations.

Wildlife managers use a variety of practices to manage a habitat and keep it in balance, including:

Monitoring wildlife populations

Improving habitats when an area changes

Setting hunting regulations

Allowing hunting to balance animal populations in a habitat

Controlling predators

Artificially stocking animals

Controlling or preventing disease

Initiating funding programs

To identify game properly, hunters must learn to recognize key characteristics of the animal being hunted. Knowing the key characteristics of animals will help hunters distinguish between similar species and between the male and female of the same species. Mistakes in identification can lead to illegal harvest of game or non-game animals.